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HISTORIC BOOK BROUGHT TO LIFE

2011, British academic Dr David Culpin made a marvellous discovery. While at the National Library of SA in Cape Town, researching the collection of Sir George Grey, the governor of the Cape Colony between 1854 and 1861, Culpin came across a book published in South Africa almost two centuries ago.

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